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November 19th, 2012: Project Nim

What It’s About: Nim was a chimpanzee raised among humans as an experiment by Professor Herbert Terrace. The objective was to see if a chimpanzee could be taught real language skills by raising it in a human family and teaching it sign language from its earliest days. Unfortunately for Nim, the project was as poorly run as it was conceived. This is Nim’s story.